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I'm also starting a petition that all posters in this thread work in Kg because stones/pounds is a stupid measurement 
*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***
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The body is smart and when you expend a lot of calories, it will make you reduce movement rest of the time to compensate. That's why the 70% rule should be used for cardio, for every 100 calories burned, assume its 70 as body reduces NEAT.
Outliers being very high calorie burn runs/cycling/fapathons/etc
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I started mid August last year at 124.4KG, stuck to 1700 Calories for the first 20KG of loss and slowly increased walking as my primary exercise (coming from a back problem). Since then I have been going to the gym, did an exercise group for a while and a couple of months ago started with a personal trainer. I've raised to about 1800-1900 calories where the extra is protein.
I did have a 2.5 month break in the original 20KG as I my appendix exploded and I started again after getting to the original weight I was going into hospital.
I'm now at 95.3KG
I did have a 2.5 month break in the original 20KG as I my appendix exploded and I started again after getting to the original weight I was going into hospital.
I'm now at 95.3KG
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Is it wrong my first thought was 'oh, having your appendix removed, there's some weight gone!'? Mind you, I then google'd it and it's only 18g
Is it wrong my first thought was 'oh, having your appendix removed, there's some weight gone!'? Mind you, I then google'd it and it's only 18g
Not worth it!
IV antibiotics and a 10 day stay in hospital that would have been longer if I had not begged them to let me out.
I think the drain bag I left with was heavier than the 18g
Just recently got a couple of nice mens medium (designed to be a little oversized but works fitted on me)/ large polo shirts and some ladies size 14 tops and 16 bottoms, which considering I was 3XL and 22 tops and 26 bottoms means I really did need a new wardrobe.
Here is the medium polo shirt and size 16 shorts compared to the start of my journey:
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Yeah, people often don't talk about the expense of replacing clothes. I literally went through two sets of new clothes when I dropped 40+kg.
Caporegime
Luckily for me I embrace looking like a bum. I've already trapped my partner, i don't need to look good any more
I waddle off down to the shops looking like MC Hammer as I'm still wearing the same sweat pants and shirts that I did was I was 118kg. (Now 95.)
I refuse to buy a "transient" wardrobe when I'm hoping to get back to 80kg - the clothes are in the wardrobe, waiting.
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Soldato
8KM is next to nothing on the bike in relative terms to calories burned so I wouldn't worry about under being under fuelled at that point. Certainly on the whole you can feel a bit less energised when in a calorie deficit but you will adjust over time.
I use them as gym clothes sometimes.I waddle off down to the shops looking like MC Hammer as I'm still wearing the same sweat pants and shirts that I did was I was 118kg. (Now 95.)
That's what annoyed me! I picked, in my mind an easy route on Zwift. 31km with 250m elevation... but it battered me. I found it much more difficult than I did when I do Epic Kom or ADZ.
My body probably was just a bit shocked.
Soldato
What zone were you riding in (assuming you are using a smart trainer for swift) - do you know your FTP etc?
It was a free ride. I tend to just ride to how I'm feeling when I do that. I wasn't trying to gun it but I only have a hour for my lunch break so I tried to do it at a pace where I could get the route finished in time. I'm probably overdue an FTP test but I'm just basing it off my FTP from when I was last riding (which if I'm honest with myself has likely dropped) so I've kept it was 230
I did a hour of Z2 yesterday and felt fine for the most part. Ravenous when I got off the bike but until that point I had only consumed two huels and a flat white so maybe 900 calories in total. I probably should've had something before!
Will be doing another easy Z2 ride this evening and catch up on Futurama
Well, it's friday and I've stuck to my -750-1000 calorie deficit. I haven't been able to exercise quite as much as I would've liked this week but I've got the time allowed for a decent ride tomorrow morning which should help.
Last Friday I was 90Kg on the nose. This morning I was 89.2Kg. I'll weigh myself again after work as for some reason I'm lighter in the evening than I am the mornings. But it's looking to be between 800g-1kg lighter this week. I'll take that.
Last Friday I was 90Kg on the nose. This morning I was 89.2Kg. I'll weigh myself again after work as for some reason I'm lighter in the evening than I am the mornings. But it's looking to be between 800g-1kg lighter this week. I'll take that.
I would recommend just sticking to mornings, first thing out of bed (maybe after dropping some weight if you can). There's not point weighing when you know you'll be lighter really. I sometimes, just out of interest, wiegh (and delete) myself after a long ride and I can be 4lbs lighter than in the morning, but I know most of that will come back on as I eat and drink it back in.
Good job though, keep it up.
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Yeah that's not a bad idea.
I'm not going to start patting myself on the back until I'm a firm 87kg though. As now I can fluctuate to a high 88 but when I'm getting 87 consistently on the scales I'll know it's working
Don't feel too bad... yet
I'm not going to start patting myself on the back until I'm a firm 87kg though. As now I can fluctuate to a high 88 but when I'm getting 87 consistently on the scales I'll know it's working
Don't feel too bad... yet
The polite ways we have for saying 'having a poo'
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Two weeks annual leave coming to an end. Haven’t ballooned I don’t think, but I’ll definitely be at the upper end of my weight margins. Not tracking calories or doing daily weights over that time. Don’t think I’ve been eating terribly, but have definitely been on holiday mode! The weigh ins that I have done have still been sub 90 kg which is a good sign and I’m sure with a bit of focus I can be back in the right place. Exercise was really helping pre holiday but committing to regular gym sessions has continued to be a challenge. Take any small wins I suppose!